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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Ending People Section 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ishi's job in the spring?
(a) To clean the feather and fur wraps.
(b) To grind salmon bones into flour.
(c) To catch salmon.
(d) To wash the baskets.

2. Why does Ishi wander away when he is supposed to be watching over Tushi?
(a) He is tracking and calling a quail.
(b) He is gathering acorns and loses track of his location.
(c) He prefers to watch out for her from a distance.
(d) He is trying to catch a butterfly for her.

3. Why does Ishi release the rabbit that he catches while he is out collecting lichen?
(a) Somehow, the rabbit reminds Ishi of Tushi.
(b) The rabbit came because it was curious, not because Ishi had been hunting.
(c) Ishi thinks the rabbit is too cute to eat.
(d) The rabbit appears to be as hungry and weak as he and his family.

4. Why is Ishi concerned about Grandmother and Grandfather?
(a) They are too quiet and do not speak to the others anymore.
(b) They are forgetting the stories that they have told for years.
(c) They do not have much food to eat and are growing weak.
(d) They are getting older and will soon die.

5. What does Mother take from her treasure bundle and wear on the night that she dies?
(a) Ishi's bone earrings.
(b) Her feather cape.
(c) Her shell necklace.
(d) Her sweetgrass bracelet.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Ishi returns from his journey, what does he notice about Timawi?

2. What is the "tube-stick" that Tushi and Ishi see the saldu using?

3. Why does Mother allow Tushi to go with Ishi to the beaver den?

4. Why does Tushi spread black raspberries and manzanita berries onto mats?

5. According to the story that Grandfather tells, where did the old woman hide the fire that she had stolen from the Fire People?

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